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Three boys all found themselves in the same spot. All were seniors, all were in what used to be called Core Four fraternities (studs), all were in Pratt (dorks) and most importantly, all were on the rebound.
Some people think that parties are all about getting drunk. But they are so wrong. Parties are about more than that. They are about dressing up... and then getting drunk. We're not talking about Chanel and Estée Lauder make-up (as patriotic Americans, we have boycotted all French products). We're talking about something bigger. Lipstick and eye shadow don't define a person. Dianne Vreeland of Vogue fame once said, "It's not the clothes we wear that our important, but rather the lives we live wearing them." Or something like that. We figure she was talking about theme parties.
Dating at Duke" can be filed away with "kegs on the quad" and "an F in Intro to Jazz." In other words, it just doesn't happen.
I am about as good at names as I am with electrical engineering. Let me explain that my science credits include Physics of Forensics and AIDS.
Whoever said that nothing fashionable ever came out of Durham, N.C., clearly does not keep abreast of their Vogue editors' biographical information.
The traditional hottest souvenir to bring back from summer vacation--the tan--is fading. Literally. It seems fashion is finally catching up to years of health reports contradicting the belief that the "healthy glow" received from the sun is in fact healthy. Ten-minute sessions thoroughly applying sunscreen now are replacing the 10-minute sessions in the tanning bed of years past. So time-wise it may be a wash, but skin-wise it's progress. Even fake glows, kindly courtesy of sunless tanners or the wonders of the Fantasy Tan, are toning down to appear safely fake.
As you are reading this riveting and questionably self-serving story, I am in New York doing my favorite thing in the world--shopping. More specifically, I am shopping for the wonderful fall designs that are most impossible to find in either Durham or elsewhere in Middle America. On my to-get list are the fashions I consider most Duke-friendly from this season's sadly less-than-spectacular line, and I, clocking in philanthropy hours for the summer, will share what I have garnished from devoted readings of Vogue and Bazaar.
It had been a particularly slutty month for Sidney. That is how these things usually happen - one does not go to war without some impetus. Sidney's was a mile-long string of progressives followed by progressing up her shirt.
As the Sex and the City actresses declared an end to their days of public nudity, theories exploded about what they will do next-write a book on the female orgasm, star in Annie, moonlight on Melrose Place.... But, alas, they already conquered the world, so they decided to think bigger-back to their own show's beginnings.
Although it is still closer to a dream than reality, the Sanford Institute of Public Policy has narrowed its doctorate degree plans to joint degree programs with other graduate and professional schools in the University.
Administrator fashion--the ultimate oxymoron? Not at Duke. Hoping to persuade donors to contribute to The Campaign for Duke and faculty to trade Cambridge for Durham, Duke administrators have gone back to school to get their doctorates in fashion.
The Sanford Institute of Public Policy should reconsider the number of its professors of the practice, its organization of teaching and research, and its areas of concentration, according to a February 2002 external review that was obtained by The Chronicle.
Thirty years after he left the White House, one of Duke's most infamous alumni--former President Richard Nixon, Law '37--was resurrected in a panel discussion that included both his staunchest supporters and a man who prosecuted him.
A former nurse has accused Duke University Hospital of firing her because of her support of unionization, just months after another nurse sued the Hospital for the same grievance.
His freshman year, Mark Boyd rushed three very different fraternities: Phi Kappa Psi, Sigma Alpha Epsilon and Kappa Sigma. Despite their differences and even rivalries, three years later all three groups find they now share the same fate-they are no longer University-recognized fraternities.
Faced with impending sanctions from its national headquarters and the University, Kappa Sigma fraternity decided to dissolve its Duke chapter Saturday.
When the University created gargoyles resembling donors Aubrey and Kathleen McClendon, it hoped to surprise the couple that had given so much to residential life.
Two months after his death, the University community will gather this afternoon to celebrate the life of Edmund Pratt, Engineering '47.
As the nation mourns the loss of a U.S. Senator, some at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill are also mourning the loss of a friend.
With just over a year left in the seven-year, $2 billion Campaign for Duke and 96 percent of the goal met, the University is shifting its focus from the 10 major divisions--the seven schools, athletics, the library and University-wide initiatives--to individual areas within the divisions.
